Bug 491526

Summary:	(Enhancement Request) Make Krunner launch in the background on startup
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	ambioid <thepixelbozz>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	alexander.lohnau, cwo.kde, natalie_clarius
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description ambioid 2024-08-10 11:42:48 UTC

Not really a bug but a suggestion for an enhancement. 

Krunner on first usage takes significantly longer to start up upon the activation being used as it takes time to start the krunner program. This feature is meant to be a convenient "Quick search", and having to wait a few seconds for it to run (Even longer on slower devices) takes away most of that quick searchness. The MacOS spotlight search appears instantly. It also leads to missed keypresses if something is typed while waiting for it to launch and all of this led me to not wanting to use the feature even though I love it!!

My suggestion is very simple, make krunner daemon launch in the background on device startup. This is already possible through setting up a startup service for krunner, but I think that it would be helpful for this to be in default KDE because it would just make the KDE experience so much more seamless, smooth and quick.

Comment 1 cwo 2024-08-10 15:07:23 UTC

Thank you for this feature request! Another request covers a quite similar issue; to make the list of requests easier to follow I'm marking this as a duplicate of that report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491203 ***